IDE problems

[Justin Moore]

> We have a system with Supermicro 370LE motherboard that
> has 20Gb IDE system disk (primary IDE master) and CD-rom (primary
> IDE slave).  (2xPentium III 1 GHZ).
>
> [snip ...]
>
> We are currently running 2.2.19-6.2.1 kernel as it came from Red Hat.

   There are some known problems with the ServerWorks LE chipset that
cause filesystem corruption on some recent kernels.  The bottom line is
that it appears to be a BIOS bug, and that disabling DMA on your IDE
chains will prevent that.  A chain of BIOS updates may or may not solve
your problem, but I haven't seen anything too encouraging yet.  A detailed
bug report can be found at

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38429

Good luck.
-jdm

Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Email:  justin at cs.duke.edu